Living, working and traveling in Japan - life as an English teacher in Nagoya
About this blog
This is less a travelogue than an ongoing documentation of life abroad. I came to Nagoya back in March of 2003 and have been living and working here ever since. During that time I've seen a fair chunk of my host country as well as visited a number of neighboring others. I thought it worth preserving for posterity.
As this blog was created well after the fact, most of the older (2003) entries will remain as map points only. At this time, I don't have pictures on my computer to go with them and, anyhow, it was a bloody long time ago!
Trip Start
Mar 18, 2003
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Trip End
Apr 08, 2007
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There are 55 entries in this blog
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Farewell (again) to the U.S. -
2
Digging in to Japanese living -
3
Doing a visa run on company time? -
4
The arrival of the sakura -
5
Black castle of the crows in the Japan Alps -
6
A Japanese phoenix -
7
Time to play tour guide -
8
On to the cultural capital -
9
The finest of Japanese castles -
10
Great Buddhas and ancient capitals -
11
Music and hedonism: stir well and indulge -
12
The end of the (relationship) line. . . . -
13
The old imperial capital's bountiful fall foliage -
14
Paying respects to the hometown should be easier -
15
State capitals old and new -
16
Weekend getaway to Japan's second city -
17
Whore of the Orient -
18
Back here again?? -
19
Down amongst the tumuli -
20
Honeymoon island -
21
How to make a classic Japanese tourist trap -
22
To the land of Chingis Khan -
23
Sweating it out in the Mongolian sun -
24
Chingis Khan's old capital -
25
A day of relaxation at the Great White Lake -
26
Winding down and taking in the Soviet grandeur -
27
Kyushu's bustling metropolis -
28
Feudal Japan's window on the world -
29
Castle town of central Kyushu -
30
Days of toxic volcanic fumes and hot springs -
31
Snooping around Japan's largest lake -
32
A Kyoto on the Sea of Japan (minus the tourists) -
33
Smacked by Siberia -
34
Hurrying to take in some of Beantown -
35
Christmas in the Berkshires -
36
A memorable New Year's in the Big Apple -
37
Hitting the big city -
38
Under the pink -
39
Remnants of old Japan in the mountains -
40
A weekend getaway to Western Honshu -
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Jostling with the crowds -
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A rushed visit home -
43
Parading through the sticky summer -
44
'Little Kyoto' in the Japan Alps -
45
A thousand and one ways to cook a pig -
46
The big autumn parade -
47
First step towards the next stage -
48
Saying farewell to 2006 -
49
A traditional Japanese New Year's -
50
A new tool for the coming spring -
51
The great phallic procession -
52
Castle hunting in Tokugawa's backyard -
53
Gainfully unemployed under the sakura -
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Sakura in the old capital -
55
Back in Kariya and cramped for time
